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Occurrence

• Injuries are the leading cause of death for Native Americans ages 1 to 44 and the third leading cause of death overall (CDC 2003).
  
• Injuries and violence account for 75% of all deaths among Native Americans ages 1 to 19 (Wallace 2000).
  
• Native Americans 19 years and younger are at greater risk of preventable injury-related deaths than others in the same age group in the United States. Compared with blacks and whites, this group had the highest injury-related death rates for motor vehicle crashes, pedestrian events, and suicide. Rates for these causes were two to three times greater than rates for whites the same age. During 1989–1998, injuries and violence caused the deaths of 3,314 Native American children living in Indian Health Service (IHS) areas (Wallace 2003).

For the entire page,
website: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/nativeamericans.htm